Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-24


on the 18th, to one months imprisonment
at hard labor for intimidation.
THE President has accepted the resigna-
ton of Land Commissioner Sparks ac-
companying the acceptance with letter
which is to be made public if Mr.. Sparks
chooses.
THE National League aud the Broths r.
hood of Ball Players came to an harmoni-
GUS understanding the 18th, and a
modified contract for clubs and players
was agreed upon.
THE tenants, including the leaseholders
of the County Down estates of Lord DUFF
ferin. have asked forty per cent. reduc
tion of rents and an extension of the time
for paying them.
LAND COMMISSIONERS SPARKS writes q
long and rather caustic letter to the Pres
ident reviewing the controversy between
himself and Secretary Lamar and tender
ing his resignation.
THE proprietor of the Anarchist resort
at Newark, n. J., whose license has been
revoked, refuses to close his place, and
there is chance of conflict between the
police and the Reds.
ADvIcEs from Teheran state that the
ouau Will StaT5 neAG ApTll On Il tOuT Vi
Europe. He will visit, Russia, Germany,
Austria, France, England, Italy and Tur.
key, returning to Persia in September.
THE anti-organ convention, with dele.
gates from Un tied Presbyterian churches
in various cities of the country, opened at
Dayton, O., on the night of the 18th, with
a sermon by Rev. D. S. Littel, of Allegheny
City, Pa.
THE last fiscal year was marked by
many casualties in the railway mail
service. There were 24 derailments OF
wrecks of postal car trains. Three postal
clerks were killed, 40 seriously and Z:
slightly injured.
Mrs MARGARET ENGEL, living in Ra
cine, Wis, claims to have been the law
full wife of Engel, the Anarchist. She
claims to have recognized the Anarchist
as Ter husband by pictures and by the
published descriptions.
JOHANN MosT mas been released on 81,
300 bail. When Most was arraigned in
the Court OF General Sessions in New
York, on the 18th, the room was fairly
filed with Anarchist sympathizers.
The case is set for the 2Sth.
PITCHER CARUTHERS, late of the st.
Louis Browns, declares he has quit pro-
fessional ball-playing forever, and that
under no circumstances will he again
play with st. Louis, because of his un.
friendly relations with MIR. Won der Abe.
GENERAL VALENTINE BAKER. who in
1875, while holding the appointment OF
assistant Quartermaster-General at Alder
shot, England, was compelled to leave
the service on being found guilty of a
misdemeanor, is dead. He was ffty-two
years old.
THE Pope has nominated commission
to examine his project to found an exten
sive philanthropic institution for the
benefit of the working classes, to com
memorate the jubilee. He proposes thai
the sum of SOC, 900 be raised to start the
institution.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL. P. Fl. SHERIDAN
has pre- sented his annual report to the
Secretary of War. From the report it
appears that at the date of the last con.
solidated returns the army consisted oi
1000 officers and "a 236 men, including In.
dian scouts.
DIPLOMATIC relations between Rou.
mania and Greece have been severed and
the Roumanan Minister at Athens ha:
been recalled in consequence of a quarre
over the estate of a person who died il
Roumania whom both governments claimed
as subject.
AT meeting of the joint arbitration
board of the National Federation of Miners
and Mine Operators at Columbus, o. ,on the
14th, it was decided to pay five cents ad.
vance per ton for mining, the advance tt
date from November i, 1887, and continue
to May I, 1888.
THE annual report of the superintendent
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis shows
that institution to be in good condition in
all respects. A comprehensive plan in the
course of all studies is recommended, Sc
as to make efficiency the first idea in the
training of students. ......
IT is reported from Sarrakhs that Ayout
Khan, who Lord Salisbury announced hat
submitted to the British, had 5000 follow
ers, but gave in his submission, trusting t.
the Queens mercy and because he wa:
angry with Russia for refusing to supply
him with arms and troops.
THE station agent of the Chicago &
Atlantic railroad at Rochester, Ind, dis
covered dynamite bomb in freight cal
on the 14th. The bomb was made of
piece of gas pipe, with a fuse in one enc
and q cartridge in the other. The dan
,gerous missile was handed to the police.
CoMMopoRE j. G. WALKER, chief of tn,
Bureau of Navigation, in his annual re-
port to the Secretary of the Navy, strongly
urges the formation of a naval reserve
to be composed of men who have seer
service from the merchant marine, sea
and lake coasting trade, fishermen, light
house and life saving services, and from
yachtsmen.
AT the meeting of the National pension
committee of the Grand Army of the Re
public in New York. on the 10Th, the com
mittee outlined a pension measure to b.
presented to Congress at the next session
including disability bill which will pro
vide for the equalization of disability pen
sions for veterans widows and severely
manned veterans.
THE statement is publ ished in New
York that the heads of the police depart
ment have decided that hereafter thu
Anarchists will not be allowed to meet
and that the carrying of any banners O
badges or the playing OF any music
should they undertake to parade, will no
be permitted. There are hints of probabi!
sensational developments soon.
A SENSATION has been created ct Wilkes
barre. Pa, by an application from VIM
KibIer and wife and others interested fol-
a mandamus to compel the Susquehanns
Coal Company to produce the bodies O
twenty-six miners who We're buried In No
i slope of that company at Nanticoke OF
december IS, 1885, and whose bodies art
still entombed in the pit. 1t would Cost
$3.50. 900 to dig them OUT